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On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library
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On Hermocratia (From The Greek)
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The Maze 400 ViewsRate it
On The High Price Of Fish
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On Female Inconstancy (From The Greek)
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On The Swallow (From The Greek) 383 ViewsRate it
Pernicious Weed! 382 ViewsRate it
On The Receipt Of A Hamper. (In The Manner Of Homer) 380 ViewsRate it
Epitaph On Johnson
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An Epitaph 2 (From The Greek)
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Olney Hymn 31: On The Death Of A Minister 374 ViewsRate it
The Triumph Of Heavenly Love Desired
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To My Cousin, Anne Bodham, On Receiving From Her A Network Purse, Made By Herself
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The Thracian
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No Sorrow Peculiar To The Sufferer 368 ViewsRate it
On The Same By Palladas
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Epigram : To Christina, Queen Of Sweden, With Cromwell's Picture (Translation) 348 ViewsRate it
A Comparison. Addressed To A Young Lady
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In A Letter To C. P. Esq. In Imitation Of Shakspeare 343 ViewsRate it
On A Similar Character (From The Greek) 339 ViewsRate it
On The Reed (From The Greek) 339 ViewsRate it
The Entire Surrender
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The Perfect Sacrifice
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On A Miser, 3 (From The Greek) 329 ViewsRate it
Inscription For The Tomb Of Mr. Hamilton
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On Envy (From The Greek) 323 ViewsRate it
On the Death of a Minister 321 ViewsRate it
Epitaph On Fop, A Dog Belonging To Lady Throckmorton 320 ViewsRate it
In A Letter To C. P. Esq. Ill With The Rheumatism
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Lines. Oh! To Some Distant Scene
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On Pallas Bathing, From A Hymn Of Callimachus 304 ViewsRate it
To A Young Friend, On His Arriving At Cambridge Wet, When No Rain Had Fallen There 304 ViewsRate it
On The Author Of Letters On Literature
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Yardley Oak
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A Comparison
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Table Talk
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The Cantab 160 ViewsRate it
Divine Justice Amiable
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R. S. S.
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Translation From Virgil. Æneid, Book VIII. Line 18.
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The Task: Book II. -- The Time-Piece
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The Castaway
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Elegy V. Anno Aet. 20. On The Approach Of Spring (Translated From Milton)
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Lines Addressed to Miss Theodora Jane Cowper, On Himself
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The Nightingale and Glow-worm
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An Epigram From Homer 136 ViewsRate it
God Moves In A Mysterious Way
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Olney Hymn 34: The Waiting Soul
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On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
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Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3.
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On The Ice Islands Seen Floating In The German Ocean
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The Snail 131 ViewsRate it
Elegy IV. Anno Aet. 18. To My Tutor, Thomas Young, Chaplain Of The English Merchants Resident At Hamburg (Translated From Milton)
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Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion
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Jehovah-Shalom. The Lord Send Peace
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Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq.
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The Waiting Soul
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Apology To Delia: For Desiring A Lock Of Her Hair
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God Hides His People
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Glory To God Alone
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Olney Hymn 53: My Soul Thirsteth For God
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The Cause Won 127 ViewsRate it
To Miss C-----, On Her Birthday
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Monumental Inscription To William Northcot 126 ViewsRate it
Olney Hymn 10: The Future Peace And Glory Of The Church
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Olney Hymn 15: Praise For The Fountain Opened
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Olney Hymn 39: The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death
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Olney Hymn 51: Lively Hope And Gracious Fear
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On A Miser (From The Greek) 126 ViewsRate it
On A Plant Of Virgin's-Bower, Designed To Cover A Garden-seat 126 ViewsRate it
Verses Written At Bath, On Finding The Heel Of A Shoe
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On Observing Some Names Of Little Note Recorded In The Biographia Britannica
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Hatred of Sin
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Olney Hymn 43: Prayer For Patience
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Jehovah-Rophi. I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee
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Olney Hymn 25: Jehovah Jesus
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Olney Hymn 28: Jesus Hasting To Suffer
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The Diverting History Of John Gilpin, Showing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, And Came Safe Home Again
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The Dog and the Water Lily. No Fable
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The Retired Cat
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The Task: Book II, The Time-Piece (excerpts)
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Ode. Supposed To Be Written On The Marriage Of A Friend
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Olney Hymn 6: Wisdom
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Grace and Providence
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Olney Hymn 48: Joy And Peace In Believing
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On Miltiades 122 ViewsRate it
On The Death Of Mrs. Throckmorton's Bullfinch
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On The Receipt Of My Mother's Picture Out Of Norfolk
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The 5th Satire Of Book I. Of Horace : A Humorous Description Of The Author's Journey From Rome To Brundusium
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Epigram : On The Inventor Of Gunpowder (Translated From Milton) 121 ViewsRate it
Inscription For A Stone Erected At The Sowing Of A Grove Of Oaks At Chillington, Anno 1791 121 ViewsRate it
See Where The Thames, The Purest Stream
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Ode To Peace
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The Four Ages. A Brief Fragment Of An Extensive Projected Poem
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Written In A Quarrel
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The Happy Change
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Gratitude, Addressed To Lady Hesketh
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Love Faithful In The Absence Of The Beloved
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To Warren Hastings, Esq. 119 ViewsRate it
An Epitaph 4 (From The Greek)
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Exhortation to Prayer
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Stanzas Subjoined To The Yearly Bill Of Mortality Of The Parish Of All-Saints, Northampton. Anno Domini 1789
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The Joy Of The Cross
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The Secrets Of Divine Love Are To Be Kept
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Watching Unto God In The Night Season (3)
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Welcome to the Table
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Light Shining out of Darkness
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Olney Hymn 63: Not Of Works
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The Necessity Of Self–Abasement
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On A Battered Beauty (From The Greek) 115 ViewsRate it
Song On Peace
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The Task: Book I. -- The Sofa
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A Manual, More Ancient Than The Art Of Printing, And Not To Be Found In Any Catalogue 114 ViewsRate it
By Heraclides
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Love Pure And Fervent
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Olney Hymn 12: Ephraim Repenting
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On Niobe (From The Greek) 114 ViewsRate it
Verses, Supposed To Be Written By Alexander Selkirk During His Solitary Abode In The Island Of Juan Fernandez
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On A Spaniel, Called Beau, Killing A Young Bird
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Of Himself
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Olney Hymn 37: Temptation
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Olney Hymn 38: Looking Upwards In A Storm
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Olney Hymn 4: Jehovah-Nissi: The Lord My Banner
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Peace after a Storm
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The Distress'd Travellers; or, Labour in Vain
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Contentment
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Love Abused
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Strada's Nightingale
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Sunset And Sunrise (Translated From Owen) 111 ViewsRate it
Walking With God
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A Song : The Sparkling Eye
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Olney Hymn 1: Walking With God
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The Task: Book V, The Winter Morning Walk (excerpts)
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Olney Hymn 20: Old Testament Gospel
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Olney Hymn 60: Abuse Of The Gospel
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Boadicea. An Ode
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Joy In Martyrdom
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Mortals! Around Your Destined Heads
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Olney Hymn 36: Afflictions Sanctified By The Word
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Sonnet I. (Translated From Milton)
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An Enigma 107 ViewsRate it
An Epistle To Joseph Hill, Esq.
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Ode On The Death Of A Lady, Who Lived One Hundred Years, And Died On Her Birthday, 1728 (Translation)
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Olney Hymn 33: Seeking The Beloved
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Scenes Favourable To Meditation
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Self–Diffidence
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To Giovanni Battista Manso, Marquis of Villa. (Translated From Milton)
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Truth
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Stanzas Subjoined To The Yearly Bill Of Mortality Of The Parish Of All-Saints, Northampton. Anno Domini 1790
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Elegy III. Anno Aet. 17. On The Death Of The Bishop Of Winchester (Translated From Milton)
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Olney Hymn 18: Lovest Thou Me?
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The Doves
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Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 1.
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Lines Addressed To Dr. Darwin, Author Of The 'Botanic Garden.'
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On Receiving Hayley's Picture 103 ViewsRate it
Retirement
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The Cricket
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The Symptoms of Love
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Catharina
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Hope, Like The Short-lived Ray That Gleams Awhile
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On The Loss Of The Royal George
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Heroism
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Inscription For A Stone Erected At The Sowing Of A Grove Of Oaks At Chillington, Anno 1790
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Lines Written During A Period Of Insanity
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Lovest Thou Me?
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On Pedigree. From Epicharmus
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The Glowworm 101 ViewsRate it
The Task: Book III. -- The Garden
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Living and a Dead Faith
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Love Constrained to Obedience
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Mutual Forbearance : Necessary to the Happiness of the Married State
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Prudent Simplicity (Translated From Owen) 100 ViewsRate it
To Mrs. Throckmorton, On Her Beautiful Transcript Of Horace's Ode Ad Librum Suum 100 ViewsRate it
To William Hayley, Esq. June 29, 1793. 100 ViewsRate it
Afflictions Sanctified by the Word
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Aspirations Of The Soul After God
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Ephraim Repenting
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In Memory Of The Late John Thornton, Esq.
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Lines On The Death Of Sir William Russel
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On The Late Indecent Liberties Taken With The Remains Of Milton
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Sonnet To Henry Cowper, Esq.
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Divine Love Endures No Rival
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Olney Hymn 5: Jehovah-Shalom: The Lord Send Peace
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Temptation
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Not Works
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The Innocent Thief
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Jehovah-Jireh. The Lord Will Provide
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To Health (From The Greek)
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To The Nightingale, Which The Author Heard Sing On New Year's Day
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An Epistle To Robert Lloyd, Esq.
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On A Mischievous Bull, Which The Owner Him Sold At The Author's Instance
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On A True Friend (From The Greek) 93 ViewsRate it
Olney Hymn 44: Submission
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On Flatteries (From The Greek) 92 ViewsRate it
The Cock-Fighter's Garland
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The Negro's Complaint
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Longing to be with Christ
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Olney Hymn 46: Retirement
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Stanzas Subjoined To The Yearly Bill Of Mortality Of The Parish Of All-Saints, Northampton. Anno Domini 1787
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Epitaph on a Hare 90 ViewsRate it
Olney Hymn 23: Pleading For And With Youth
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The Acquiescence Of Pure Love
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The Lily And The Rose 90 ViewsRate it
Happy Solitude--Unhappy Men
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Horace, Book I. Ode XXXVIII. 89 ViewsRate it
To John Johnson, On His Presenting Me With An Antique Bust Of Homer
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Written After Leaving Her At New Burns
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An Epitaph
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Idem Latine Redditum 88 ViewsRate it
Pleading for and with Youth
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The Christian
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The Pine-Apple And The Bee
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The Poplar Field
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To A Friend In Distress (Translated From Owen) 88 ViewsRate it
To The Rev. Mr. Newton, Rector Of St. Mary Woolnoth
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Inscription For A Hermitage In The Author's Garden 87 ViewsRate it
The New Convert
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A Fable
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Elegy VI. To Charles Diodati, When He Was Visiting In The Country (Translated From Milton)
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On A Goldfinch, Starved To Death In His Cage
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Reciprocal Kindness The Primary Law Of Nature
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To Mrs. Newton
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Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 2.
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Olney Hymn 2: Jehovah-Jireh: The Lord Will Provide
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The Love Of God The End Of Life
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The Rose 85 ViewsRate it
The Testimony Of Divine Adoption
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True and False Comforts
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A Tale. June 1793
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Lines Written For Insertion In A Collection Of Handwritings And Signatures Made By Miss Patty 84 ViewsRate it
Olney Hymn 59: A Living And A Dead Faith
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Olney Hymn 68: Light Shining Out Of Darkness
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Stanzas Subjoined To The Yearly Bill Of Mortality Of The Parish Of All-Saints, Northampton. Anno Domini 1788
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Truth And Divine Love Rejected By The World
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Epitaph On A Free But Tame Redbreast, A Favourite Of Miss Sally Hurdis
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Hymn For The Use Of The Sunday School At Olney
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My Soul Thirsteth for God
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On The Benefit Received By His Majesty From Sea-Bathing, In The Year 1789
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On The Promotion Of Edward Thurlow, Esq. To The Lord High Chancellorship Of England 83 ViewsRate it
The Salad. By Virgil
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To The Spanish Admiral Count Gravina
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A Song : On The Green Margin
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An Attempt At The Manner Of Waller
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Elegy VII. Anno Aetates Undevigesimo (Translated From Milton)
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Epitaph On Mr. Chester Of Chicheley
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Olney Hymn 22: Prayer For A Blessing In The Young
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Olney Hymn 66: I Will Praise The Lord At All Times
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Ovid. Trist. Lib. V. Elegy XII.
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The House of Prayer
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To Mr. John Rouse, Librarian of the University of Oxford. (Translated From Milton)
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Elegy I. To Charles Deodati (Translated From Milton)
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In Seditionem Horrendam, Corruptelis Gallicus Ut Fertue, Londini Nuper Exortam 81 ViewsRate it
Self-Acquaintance
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The Hidden Life
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There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood
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Answer To Stanzas Addressed To Lady Hesketh By Miss Catharine Fanshawe, In Returning A Poem 80 ViewsRate it
On The Death Of The Bishop Of Ely. Anno Aet. 17. (Translated From Milton)
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That Nature Is Not Subject To Decay (Translated From Milton)
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The Moralizer Corrected. A Tale
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Olney Hymn 27: Welcome To The Table
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Olney Hymn 17: The House of Prayer
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Olney Hymn 24: Prayer For Children
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On The Platonic 'Ideal' As It Was Understood By Aristotle. (Translated From Milton)
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Sonnet III. Canzone. (Translated From Milton)
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The Valley of the Shadow of Death
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A Child Of God Longing To See Him Beloved
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Olney Hymn 32: The Shining Light
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Olney Hymn 54: Love Constraining To Obedience
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I Will Praise the Lord at All Times
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Love Increased By Suffering
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Olney Hymn 14: Jehovah-Shammah
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Olney Hymn 41: Mourning And Longing
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On Late Acquired Wealth (From The Greek) 77 ViewsRate it
Sonnet VI. (Translated From Milton)
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To Delia: On Her Endeavouring To Conceal Her Grief At Parting
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Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer
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On The Death Of Damon. (Translated From Milton)
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Friendship
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Olney Hymn 40: Peace After A Storm
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Olney Hymn 57: The New Convert
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Self–love And Truth Incompatible
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The Valediction
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A Riddle
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Charity
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Expostulation
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To Delia
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Watching Unto God In The Night Season (2)
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Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce; Or, The Slave-Trader In The Dumps
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An Ode, On Reading Mr. Richardson's History Of Sir Charles Grandison
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Jesus Hasting to Suffer
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Olney Hymn 21: Sardis
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The Task: Book I, The Sofa (excerpts)
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Tirocinium; or, a Review of Schools
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By Philemon
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Pity For Poor Africans
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Dependence
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Epigram : The Cottager And His Landlord. A Fable (Translated From Milton) 71 ViewsRate it
Epitaphium Alterum 71 ViewsRate it
Joy and Peace in Believing
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The Contrite Heart
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The Task: Book V. -- The Winter Morning Walk
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A Poetical Epistle To Lady Austen
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Olney Hymn 9: The Contrite Heart
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The Narrow Way
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The Task: Book VI, The Winter Walk at Noon (excerpts)
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From Menander 69 ViewsRate it
Olney Hymn 56: Hatred Of Sin
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On Flaxman's Penelope 69 ViewsRate it
Sonnet V. (Translated From Milton)
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Verses Printed By Himself On A Flood At Olney
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An Epitaph 3 (From The Greek) 68 ViewsRate it
On The Queen's Visit To London, The Night Of The 17th March 1789
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Praise for the Fountain Opened
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Stanzas Subjoined To The Yearly Bill Of Mortality Of The Parish Of All-Saints, Northampton. Anno Domini 1793
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The Judgement Of The Poets
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Written In A Fit Of Illness. R. S. S.
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The Parrot
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Lively Hope and Gracious Fear
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On The Death Of The Vice-Chancellor, A Physician (Translated From Milton)
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The Shining Light
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The Task: Book IV. -- The Winter Evening
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The Vicissitudes Experienced In The Christian Life
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To The Immortal Memory Of The Halibut, On Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784
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Olney Hymn 11: Jehovah Our Righteousness
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Olney Hymn 3: Jehovah-Rophi: I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee
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Prayer for Patience
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The Ice Palace
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The Task: Book IV, The Winter Evening (excerpts)
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To Mrs. King, On Her Kind Present To The Author, A Patchwork Counterpane Of Her Own Making
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To My Father (Translated From Milton)
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Familiarity Dangerous
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Jehovah Our Righteousness
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Lines, Composed For A Memorial Of Ashley Cowper, Esq.
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Living Water 65 ViewsRate it
Report Of An Adjudged Case
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The Winter Nosegay
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To The Reverend William Bull
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Addressed To Miss Macartney, Afterwards Mrs. Greville, On Reading The Prayer For Indifference
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Denner's Old Woman
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Sardis
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The Jackdaw
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Horace. Book II. Ode X.
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Jehovah Jesus
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Olney Hymn 64: Praise For Faith
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Stanzas Subjoined To The Yearly Bill Of Mortality Of The Parish Of All-Saints, Northampton. Anno Domini 1792
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The Flatting-Mill. An Illustration
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The Future Peace and Glory of the Church
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Upon A Venerable Rival
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Epigram : To Leonora Singing At Rome (Translated From Milton)
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Sonnet Addressed To William Hayley, Esq.
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The Shrubbery, Written in a Time of Affliction
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The Soul That Loves God Finds Him Everywhere
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An Apology For Not Showing Her What I Had Wrote
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Jehovah-Shammah
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On An Old Woman (From The Greek) 60 ViewsRate it
Olney Hymn 45: The Happy Change
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Wisdom
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Abuse of the Gospel
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Anti-Thelyphthora. A Tale In Verse
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For the Poor
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Horace, Book I. Ode IX.
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Olney Hymn 13: The Covenant
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Olney Hymn 30: The Light And Glory Of The Word
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On The Neglect Of Homer 57 ViewsRate it
The Poet's New-Year's Gift. To Mrs. (Afterwards Lady) Throckmorton
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A Figurative Description Of The Procedure Of Divine Love
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Olney Hymn 19: Contentment
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Olney Hymn 50: The Christian
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On Mrs. Montague's Feather Hangings
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On the Grasshopper (From The Greek)
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On the Same - (On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library) 54 ViewsRate it
Simple Trust
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The Nativity
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Translation Of Prior's Chloe And Euphelia 54 ViewsRate it
An Epitaph (From The Greek) 53 ViewsRate it
Inscription For A Moss-House In The Shrubbery At Weston 53 ViewsRate it
Ode to Apollo. On An Inkglass Almost Dried In The Sun
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The Modern Patriot
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By Moschus
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Conversation
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Epigram 52 ViewsRate it
Gratitude And Love To God
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Horace, Book I. Ode XXXVIII. (2) 52 ViewsRate it
Human Frailty
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On An Infant (From The Greek)
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Jehovah-Nissi. The Lord My Banner
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Song. Written At The Request Of Lady Austen
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Horace, Book II. Ode XVI.
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On A Fowler, By Isidorus 50 ViewsRate it
On Receiving Heyne's Virgil From Mr. Hayley 50 ViewsRate it
Sonnet To George Romney, Esq. On His Picture Of Me In Crayons 50 ViewsRate it
To Dr. Austin, Of Cecil Street, London
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To The Rev. Mr. Newton : An Invitation Into The Country
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A Tale, Founded On A Fact, Which Happened In January, 1779
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Annus Memorabilis : Written in Commemoration of His Majesty's Happy Recovery
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Elegy II. On The Death Of The University Beadle At Cambridge (Translated From Milton)
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Sonnet II. (Translated From Milton)
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The Silkworm
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To An Afflicted Protestant Lady In France
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On One Ignorant And Arrogant (Translated From Owen) 48 ViewsRate it
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O Lord, I Will Praise Thee
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Olney Hymn 67: Longing To Be With Christ
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On Invalids (From The Greek)
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Repose In God
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On Delia (Bid Adieu, My Sad Heart)
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Stanzas On The Late Indecent Liberties Taken With The Remains Of The Great Milton
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Praise for Faith
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Song
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To Mary
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Olney Hymn 52: For The Poor
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Retalliation 44 ViewsRate it
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Sparrows Self-Domesticated In Trinity College, Cambridge
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The Task: Book VI. -- The Winter Walk at Noon
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Welcome Cross
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Old Testament Gospel
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The 9th Satire Of Book I. Of Horace : The Description Of An Impertinent. Adapted To The Present Times
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The Light and Glory of the Word
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The Love of the World Reproved: or, Hypocrisy Detected
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From The Greek Of Julianus
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Vanity of the World
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The Swallow
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Invitation To The Redbreast
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Looking Upwards in a Storm
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Watching Unto God In The Night Season
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Submission
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The Tears Of A Painter
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Mourning and Longing
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On A Bath, By Plato 34 ViewsRate it
The Colubriad
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The Covenant
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To Mrs. Unwin
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Retirement
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Seeking the Beloved
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To Sir Joshua Reynolds
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Mary And John 32 ViewsRate it
On A Good Man (From The Greek)
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The Poet, The Oyster, And Sensitive Plant
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By Callimachus
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God Neither Known Nor Loved By The World
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To The Rev. Mr. Newton, On His Return From Ramsgate
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The Sower
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